[BlueOnyx:06496] Re: OWM and Spam

[Darrell D. Mobley]

Dan,

 

Thanks for the response.  I have looked at the other BQ/BX add-ons and on a
server with just one client using the webmail, it isn't worth it to buy
those add-ons, and it's like you say, they tax the hardware as well.

 

SpamSoap looks like a good solution.  I did a quick spin around their site,
but wasn't able to determine costs.  What would it cost to cleanse all the
email on one BX box?  Is it simply an MX records thing?

 

From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it] On
Behalf Of Dan Porter
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 8:29 PM
To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
Subject: [BlueOnyx:06494] Re: OWM and Spam

 

Darrell, 

I have used OWM on all my boxes - Cobalt, BQ and BX.   I became very
frustrated with the built in filtering of OWM and have been using a third
party filter.   I find it very beneficial for the following reasons: 

1.  The spam never reaches my BX box, so there is less load on the mail
server. 
2.  If my BX box is down for any reason, all email is automatically held and
stored for delivery at a later time when the BX box is once again available.

3.  Support to the users is simple - don't use the spam filtering (either
SpamAssassin or OWM's filtering); use our special spam filtering application
(third party filter). 
4.  Growth and support of OWM appears to be stalled despite being an
excellent product for many years.  Eventually we will move to a newer and
more flexible webmail program. 

There are many third party spam filtering services available.  We currently
use Spam Soap  (www.spamsoap.com) as it gives us all the flexibility as well
as a backup system for our email server. 

I am not sure if that is a help to your situation but as I said, we
experienced the same issues and finally went elsewhere many years ago. 


Dan Porter 
Twin Wolf Technology Group 


---------- Original Message ----------- 
From: "Darrell D. Mobley" <dmobley at uhostme.com> 
To: "'BlueOnyx General Mailing List'" <blueonyx at blueonyx.it> 
Sent: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:03:03 -0500 
Subject: [BlueOnyx:06492] Re: OWM and Spam 

> Bump.  I know there are other BX machines with OWM on them, does anyone
else 
> have problems with the filter_fakedfrom trapping legitimate mail because
the 
> originator of an email is on one ISP and the recipient is on another? 
> 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it]

> > On Behalf Of Darrell D. Mobley 
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:11 PM 
> > To: 'BlueOnyx General Mailing List' 
> > Subject: [BlueOnyx:06438] OWM and Spam 
> > 
> > I was digging around in the client's OWM preferences and noticed message

> > filtering options: 
> > 
> > Limit for repeated messages:   0, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100  ( 0 means
No 
> > check for repeatness ) 
> > Filter msgs with email address in bad format:   (Filtered: 1) 
> > Filter messages with faked SMTP:   (Filtered: 8) 
> > Filter messages with faked From field:   (Filtered: 53) 
> > Filter msgs with faked exe content-type: 
> > 
> > In each setting, you can see first is a drop-down box and four check 
> > boxes. 
> > Interestingly enough, the "Filter messages with faked SMTP:   (Filtered:

> > 8)" 
> > included emails from me, sent from Outlook, through Comcast to port 587
on 
> > the server.  Why it thought I was faking SMTP is beyond me, so I had to 
> > leave it unchecked.  It also meant *some* spam gets in the inbox, but a 
> > LOT 
> > if getting caught now. 
> > 
> > Plus there are individual filters a user can invoke in OWM, so I need to

> > see 
> > what the latest filter recommendations from the OWM team are.  Some are 
> > pretty strict. 
> > 
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